Stop worrying about release cycles, start building infrastructure that future-proofs investments

For Mayank Bhatnagar, enjoying work Everpure means being a bit of a chameleon.

Nine years into his Everpure journey, Mayank has moved through three distinct chapters: individual contribution, growing the business through product monetization, and now, leading the hardware PM team. As Senior Director, he steers strategy and roadmap of FlashArray, Everpure's primary all-flash storage platform, and FlashBlade, built for unstructured data at AI scale, along with the business models and monetization strategies that surround them.

It’s a role he loves for its ability to create impact and enable others to do the same. 

Mayank is very deliberate about giving his PMs the platform to present their work to senior leadership directly. “We consciously position people for conversations where their impact can be seen,” he says.

First principles in practice

A big part of this impact creation is first-principals thinking, which Mayank’s team puts a premium on. 

“In hardware, weak decisions are expensive and hard to unwind later, so the work starts with framing the problem correctly,” he says. 

Mayank and his leadership coach PMs to ask the right questions, align on first principles, and create clarity before the organization commits.

One example that captures the stakes: Mayank, his PM peers, and broader partners are working towards building a platform that can survive any post-quantum cryptography attacks all the way through 2032. That's a hardware decision being made today, to address a threat that most organizations haven't fully articulated yet. Another example is designing systems for hosting what AI workflows may be 5 years down the road.

Building for the future — not release cycles

Key to solving long-term customer problems is FlashArray, Everpure's primary all-flash storage platform, built to handle the performance-intensive workloads enterprises run at their core. From the beginning, FlashArray was designed with a principle that still defines how Everpure builds products: longevity over replacement. 

As an example, Everpure's first-generation FlashArray chassis was designed to outlive six generations of compute and storage and networking technology upgrades. When a customer bought one back in 2015, they weren't buying a box, they were buying a decade of infrastructure that could evolve in-place, applications running the entire time.

For PMs, that creates a specific kind of challenge to solve. It requires detailed planning. It also requires knowing, at the point of design, what the next five to eight years of technology may demand, and building in the flexibility to meet it. For candidates who want broad ownership, that matters.

Impact Through Collaboration

At Everpure, PMs, engineers, sales, and other partners will give you their time, and with that comes a collective stake in getting it right.

“Bringing your own point of view, with the diligence and courage to back it and the curiosity to keep questioning it, while genuinely leaning into the expertise around you, is what turns individual risk into shared accountability.”

Mayank’s been inside the company long enough to watch it evolve dramatically, and he’s still genuinely excited about what comes next.

“Never a dull moment,” he says. “That hasn't changed.”